Another great weekend

This was another fun packed weekend. It started Thursday night with going with Jason to see Where the Wild Things Are. We went to the 8:30 pm show in the UES, and either it's been out for a while now, or adults in this area don't actually take to this movie, because it was us and another couple for the bigger part of it. The Wild Things are incredibly well done, the facial expressions, the details, it's really incredible. The kid is quite good too. He's acting is outstanding for a little boy. We stepped out of the theater and went directly over to Barnes&Noble to re-read the book, to see if we agreed with some of the reviews we had heard. And you know what, I kinda see where they're coming from. The book has a very simple story, of a boy misbehaving, as little boys often do, and being sent to his room without supper, angrily he sails into his imaginary world and stays there for a while until he smells his supper in his room and decides to come back to it. The story in the movie is about going through and surviving one's parents divorce. A big stretch if you ask me. Nevertheless, it's a good movie and I'm glad we went, we both wanted to see it.

Friday, my bookcases we delivered!!! I had been waiting all week for this. My parents had given me for my birthday two slim bookcases for my living room and I had been counting the days for them to be delivered, so once they were it was full motion into organizing, cleaning, sorting and being happy. Organizing makes me happy, getting new furniture makes my day, and books, well, I just adore books, so you can just imagine how thrilled I was. (Pictures to come, I did take them, but unfortunately, I misplaced my camera over the weekend. Will post them once I get it back.)

At night we had an invitation to a Le Beaujolais Nouveau 2009 party at Mark and Jean's place. It was a great gathering. Cas made fideuá and Jim made tortilla Española. The food was delicious, the wine was tasty and abundant, and the company was delightful. We had a great time.

Saturday found us having lunch at Bergen Bagel while we waited for Tony and MJ to show up, so we could get going over to the Nassau Coliseum to go see Star Wars in Concert!!! They are huge Star Wars fans, so you can imagine how excited they were. I've seen all the movies, but that's the extent of my fanaticism. Regardless, I really enjoyed it. John Williams' music for Star Wars was performed beautifully by the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra and hosted by Anthony Daniels, C3PO in person! A very charming man.

After the show we headed over to The Cheesecake Factory for dinner. Cheesecakes were had people, oh boy were they had! We tried key lime, red velvet and banana cream cheesecakes. All delicious. Yes, we had food too, but who cares about food, when there is dessert to talk about?

Sunday was breakfast at Bergen Bagel again (have you ever been? Seriously, the best bagels I've ever had!) and then head over to Manhattan for an impromptu shopping spree, while I waited for my friend Jason Wisdom to show up. We had a few hours of a much needed catch up and then he was off.

I then watched the AMAs and wrapped the weekend off with a little more music. Not bad huh? I loved every minute of it :)

Oh, and just to get the festive atmosphere going a little something something from the Time Warner Center. Isn't it pretty?

Roamings

I've been up to stuff, I swear. I just haven't been blogging much lately. I have things on my mind. I'll come around and share eventually, you'll see, I always do. For now, some pics of my roamings:

Wednesday night Jason and I met Mark and Jo for dinner at Socarrat Paella Bar, down in Chelsea. We order some tapas and then two different types of paellas.

The meat one.

And the sea food one.

They were delicious, highly recommend this place.

Then, on Friday I had to hike down to the Financial District to drop off some keys and pick up some mail. I hadn't been to Wall St. in a while and this was a cloudy, gloomy sort of day. If it weren't for the people it would have felt like a ghost town down there. I did though, stop by into Trinity Church. Have you ever been? It's beautiful. Very welcoming and quiet enough to sit down for a bit and give a little shout, and say thanks for all the good things and people in my life.

And then at night, after an impromptu conversation with the Sanderson's via skype, to see Nick play the beginnings of Eleanor Rigby on the guitar, Sophie popped up on the screen. We got to talking and somehow a sleepover was conjured. She got very excited about the matter and convinced her dad to bring her over to my place for the night. She arrived in her PJs and pink winter jacket and brought her pink backpack filled with clothes and toys. It was a sight to see, I wish I had a picture of that to show you. We enjoyed a little bubble bath, food, and some munequitos on TV, as Sophie call cartoons.

Then on Sunday I went to meet baby William. My friends Luisa and Jim had their second child, a beautiful baby boy. Bypass my face, please, not the best picture of me, just focus on William. Isn't he perfect? And he smells to die for. I so want one just like this to take home with me. Please? Pretty please?

And then, there's this.

I couldn't pass it by. Nick is coming into his sense of humor and is a delight to be around these days. I hope adolescence doesn't kick in too soon or too hard. I'm not ready for it!
Hope your weekend was as varied and as fun as mine.

Llegaremos a Tiempo

Si te arrancan al niño, que llevamos por dentro,
Si te quitan la teta y te cambian de cuento
No te tragues la pena, porque no estamos muertos
Llegaremos a tiempo, llegaremos a tiempo.

Si te anclaran las alas, en el muelle del viento
Yo te espero un segundo en la orilla del tiempo
Llegarás cuando vayas más allá del intento
Llegaremos a tiempo, llegaremos a tiempo

Si te abrazan las paredes desabrocha el corazón
No permitas que te anuden la respiración
No te quedes aguardando a que pinte la ocasión
Que la vida son dos trazos y un borrón

Tengo miedo que se rompa la esperanza
Que la libertad se quede sin alas
Tengo miedo que haya un día sin mañana
Tengo miedo de que el miedo, te eche un pulso y pueda más
No te rindas no te sientes a esperar

Si robaran el mapa del país de los sueños
Siempre queda el camino que te late por dentro
Si te caes te levantas, si te arrimas te espero
Llegaremos a tiempo, llegaremos a tiempo
Llegaremos a tiempo, llegaremos a tiempo

Mejor lento que parado, desabrocha el corazón
No permitas que te anuden la imaginación
No te quedes aguardando a que pinte la ocasión
Que la vida son dos trazos y un borrón

Tengo miedo que se rompa la esperanza
Que la libertad se quede sin alas
Tengo miedo que haya un día sin mañana
Tengo miedo de que el miedo te eche un pulso y pueda más
No te rindas no te sientes a esperar

Sólo pueden contigo, si te acabas rindiendo
Si disparan por fuera y te matan por dentro
Llegarás cuando vayas, más allá del intento
Llegaremos a tiempo, llegaremos a tiempo

~Rosana

Fasting?

I fasted all day yesterday. For the first time in my life I went without food for more than 24 hours willingly. I had a lot of water and a tea late at night, because I'm still sick with this cold which started last week, but aside from that nothing else went into my system. And I have to stay I was expecting more. Not really sure what I was expecting from just one day, but I had this fantasy I would be totally cleansed from the inside out. I thought I would go to the bathroom more, be totally cleared headed and invigorated by the cleanliness of it all. Not so much. I was hungry, my stomach was protesting most of the time and I felt tired and sleepy. I think that last part might have been because of the cold, but still, energy? No where to be seen yesterday.

This morning I woke up and ate fruit I had smartly purchased yesterday to have right at hand. I had some grapes, two slices of pineapple, orange juice and then half a banana and one strawberry (they weren't as sweet as I thought they would be). And that was it. I thought I would want to eat the world once I was up allowed to eat it up. Not really. My stomach was a little upset, in fact at one point I thought I might throw up, but what? There was not much there to begin with!

So now, I've had lunch and went back to my normal eating and I feel OK. Still a little weird, but still not sure if it's the fasting side effect or the cold. In any case, I was thinking "wouldn't it be great if I could do this every week? Go one day without eating and cleanse my body that way." Um, yeah, I'm rethinking that now. I think overall I feel worse than I thought I would and the benefits, well, I haven't seem them yet. Or maybe I did it wrong? Have you fasted before? How do you do it? Were you happy with the results? Please enlighten me, I don't want to go hungry again just to realize there's no benefit whatsoever.

Happy Halloween!

Have a good one!

And then there's redemption

Hi Jen,

I did not die in the meanwhile but actually spend quite some time thinking about this. I think first and foremost this: I very much apologize for what happened. It has been and does bug me. I am truly sorry and ask you to forgive me.

I see your point of view - it never was my perspective that any of it was your fault; hence I really did not intend to pretend it was. Sorry as well if it came across that way. I tried to point out why I reacted the way I did but did not mean to put any blame on you. It most certainly is on me.

C.

Apparently, I am not such a poor judge of character as we thought. Buffalodick, I'm looking at you ;)

We can be 3

I stopped by the library to get a book I had ordered. While I was there I took a look at Audrey Niffenegger's The Three Incestuous Sisters. Once I opened it I couldn't put it down. The book is based on drawings, art work, so it's very appealing. She first worked on the pictures and then developed the text and the idea for the book. The book is meant to be left open to mean whatever the reader makes of it.

For me, the three sisters represent three parts of the same person, which together make her whole. The smart, intelligent, yet capable of meanness and malice, maybe too rational to feel, deceitful and devious. The beautiful, all loving, attracting love towards her, sensitive, passionate, emotional, kind and caring. And then the talented, insightful, spiritual, psychic, in a world beyond materialism, where dreams are real and anything is possible. These three aspects of a person are depicted in there different people, but together they form what each and every one of us can potentially be. We are one, yet we are three.

It's a very simple yet thought provoking book. Check it out if you can, if not for anything else, the illustrations are worth the look.